Scientists developed a highly accurate optical ion clock, improving time measurement precision by 1,000 times.

In an optical atomic clock, atoms are irradiated with laser light. If the laser has exactly the right frequency, the atoms change their quantum mechanical state. All external influences on the atoms ...

Even your Macbook or smartphone displays time which is synchronized to the NIST-F1 clock, a cesium fountain atomic clock (aka the ‘Atomic Clock’) that is part of a global consortium of atomic ...

A standard atomic clock takes a beam of atoms that ... will be more precise than the same ruler with 4 marks. While a cesium clock may be off one second in 100 million years, the optical clocks ...

The invention – called the optical lattice clock – is a thousand times more accurate than cesium atomic clocks used for international timekeeping and is a contender for redefining how long a ...

Researchers have developed a new approach in optical atomic clocks that brings forth a major goal in science: the ...

The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the cesium clocks which are generating the second ...

Standing 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) tall and roughly the size of a single-door refrigerator, the caesium atomic fountain clock can be loaded onto a military truck and, after enduring long-distance ...

A feedback loop is also used to stabilize the 578-nm laser frequency to the clock transition. Absolute frequency measurements are carried out relative to a local caesium-fountain primary frequency ...